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pickley

pickley is the alternative form of pickly.

Meaning of pickly

Adjective

pickly (comparative more pickly, superlative most pickly)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a pickle.
    • Boiling cauliflower in a vinegar-based brine infuses a ton of pickly flavor into the vegetable as it cooks.2014, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food, page 82

Forms of pickley

comparativemore pickley
superlativemost pickley

Questions about pickley

What is pickley the alternative form of?
Pickley is the alternative form of pickly.

Words near pickley in the dictionary

  1. pickleweeds
  2. picklewich
  3. picklewiches
  4. pickleworm
  5. pickleworms
  6. pickley
  7. pickling
  8. pickling lime
  9. pickling up
  10. picklings
  11. picklist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickley (page history and authors); pickly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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